This document discusses screening of industrially important microorganisms and fermentor design. It describes primary and secondary screening techniques used to isolate microbes. Primary screening includes indicator dye, crowded plate, auxanographic, and enrichment culture techniques. Secondary screening provides information on a microbe's production potential and quality. The document also outlines the basic principles of fermentation and components of a basic fermentor design, including a fermentation tank, agitators, foam breakers, addition of media/substrate, sampling ports, and pH control system.
2. CONTENTS
Screening of Industrially Important Microorganisms
Types of Screening
Primary Screening
Secondary Screening
Principle of Fermentation Process
Basic Fermentor Design
3. Screening of Industrially Important
Microorganisms
The detection and isolation of microorganisms from a natural environment like soil containing
a large no. of microbial population is known as screening.
The screening of microoranisms deals with the economics of fermentation process.
Types of Screening
Primary Screening
Secondary Screening
4. Primary Screening
It’s a process for detection and isolation of microorganisms of our interest.
Determines which microorganisms are able to produce a compound.
Does not provide much idea about the production or yield potential of microorganisms.
It separates out only a few microorganisms, which have commercial value while discards the
valueless microorganisms .
5. Types of Primary Screening
Indicator Dye
Technique
Crowded Plate
Technique
Auxanographic
Technique
Enrichment
Culture
Technnique
Organic acid
Producing
Microorganisms
Antibiotic
Producing
Microorganisms
Extracellular
Metabolite producing
Microorganisms
Defined Media
Microorganisms
6. Types of Primary Screening
Indicator Dye
Technique
Crowded Plate
Technique
Auxanographic
Technique
Enrichment
Culture
Technnique
Organic acid
Producing
Microorganisms
Antibiotic
Producing
Microorganisms
Extracellular
Metabolite producing
Microorganisms
Defined Media
Microorganisms
i. Certain pH indicator dyes
are used in the agar medium.
ii. Eg. Neutral Red,
Bromothyol Blue
iii. Organisms pertaining to
that particular acidic pH will
respond to the
corresponding colour during
their growth.
iv. Subculturing.
7. Types of Primary Screening
Indicator Dye
Technique
Crowded Plate
Technique
Auxanographic
Technique
Enrichment
Culture
Technnique
Organic acid
Producing
Microorganisms
Antibiotic
Producing
Microorganisms
Extracellular
Metabolite producing
Microorganisms
Defined Media
Microorganisms
i. Proceeds by serial dilution
and plating of the suitable
aliquot.
ii. Antibiotic producing
colony will have no bacterial
growth around it.
iii. Subculturing.
8. Types of Primary Screening
Indicator Dye
Technique
Crowded Plate
Technique
Auxanotrophic
Technique
Enrichment
Culture
Technnique
Organic acid
Producing
Microorganisms
Antibiotic
Producing
Microorganisms
Extracellular
Metabolite producing
Microorganisms
Defined Media
Microorganisms
i. We take a test organism
which utilises that particular
metabolite and make a
suspension culture of it in
that particular metabolite.
ii. Serial dilution of the
sample containing
microorganisms.
iii. The culture plates are
flooded with the suspension
culture of test organism.
9. Types of Primary Screening
Indicator Dye
Technique
Crowded Plate
Technique
Auxanographic
Technique
Enrichment
Culture
Technnique
Organic acid
Producing
Microorganisms
Antibiotic
Producing
Microorganisms
Extracellular
Metabolite producing
Microorganisms
Defined Media
Microorganisms
i. Used for growth of
organisms which are not
easily found.
ii. serial dilution.
iii. Grown on specific
nutrient media.
10. Secondary Screening
Secondary screening, which can provide broad range of information pertaining to the:
Ability or potentiality of the organism to produce metabolite that can be used as an
industrial organism.
The quality of the yield product.
The type of fermentation process that is able to perform.
Elimination of the organisms, which are not industrially important.
11. Secondary Screening Methods
Solid Media Liquid Media
**Used for isolation and detection
of those antibiotics, which diffuse
through solid medium.
1. Giant Colony Method
> Organism such as
Streptommyces is grown on agar
medium.
> Checked using test organism
having antibiotic sensitivity.
12. Secondary Screening Methods
Solid Media Liquid Media
i. more sensitive because
it provides more useful
information about the
nutritional, physical and
production responses of
an organism to actual
fermentation production
conditions.
13. Secondary Screening Methods
Solid Media Liquid Media
1. Filtration Method
example - The Streptomyces is
grown in a broth and its
mycelium is separated by
filtration to get culture filtrate.
2. Liquid Medium Method:
This method is generally
employed for further screening to
determine the exact amount of
antibiotic produced by a
microorganism like
Streptomyces.
14. Principle of Fermentation
Fermentation is a biochemical process in which certain organisms are used to breakdown
organic molecules to produce food, pharmaceuticals and alcoholic bevarages on a large
scale.
The basic principle involved in the industrial fermentation is that organisms are grown
under suitable conditions, by provoding raw materials meeting all the necessary
requirements such as Carbon, Nitrogen, Salts, Trace Elements and Vitamins.